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...assimilated Guthrie - gone through him and come out the other side. Now, as a singer-songwriter, he had joined the folkie scene of people who made, in the words of the New Lost City Ramblers' John Cohen, "Long-playing, short-selling records." Everyone remarked on Dylan's lyric gift and driving ambition. After just a few months, and before he was 20, he had scored his first professional gig in the Village (a supporting act to blues singer John Lee Hooker). Rejected by the traditional labels, Folkways and Vanguard (whose A&R man said, "We don't record freaks...
...Three innocent actions - a gift, a restorative vacation, a trip to a wedding - turn dreadfully wrong, not because of the venality of the people who put them in motion but because of the caprices of destiny. The film makes two unarguable points: that, wherever we live, whatever our status, all of us on earth are interdependent; and that, whatever care we take to control things, our lives are ruled by chance...
...course, and thus, in the interest of objectivity, a course must be evaluated before its final exam. If students’ response rates are low, the solution is not to push the deadline into June when students have fled campus; rather, the College could consider providing incentives such as gift certificates and free iPods.The CUE Guide continues to be an important resource for course selection, but in order for it to be useful as possible, the CUE survey needs to convey as much information as possible about all courses, not just those whose professors consent. And students need to participat...
...Payne sketch, Margo Martindale is a Denver mail carrier on a Paris holiday. Wandering alone through parks in the city whose language she has tried to master (the narration is in hilarious fractured French - the kind we speak in restaurants and shops here), she comes to understand the fragile gift of solitude in a big, beautiful city...
...years with a member of the Harvard faculty. Richard A. Minard Jr., the center’s executive director, said the center has wanted to create a fellowship program since it was founded 10 years ago. “About two years ago the center received a large gift and that made it possible to do this,” he said. “It is a combination of ability and a longstanding desire to support postdoctoral work in this field.” One new fellow, David M. Thompson, received his doctorate in physics from Harvard last year...